Charles Ferguson Smith Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.
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No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.
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There are many reasons I feel at home in the U.K., but if I were asked to pinpoint the moment I knew I'd arrived, it might well be when I realised the British shared my love of fritters.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.
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I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film.
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When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.
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If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.
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I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
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Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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I'm not really that interested in going back to playing small supporting roles.
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Of course my life has changed because now everybody knows who Felix Baumgartner is.
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That the potential to become Level 5 exists in you and me and the people we work with and that it is then a process or a journey to nurture that seed... in a culture by and large that doesn't reinforce it.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
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You shall hear a good account of me or of my death.
